TOPICAL SAVINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

TOPICAL SAVINGS.

GREAT THOUGHTS IN FEW WORDS. I set my face against strikes.—Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. * * * There is no patriotism in business.— Sir George Pragnell. * * * We shall be victorious, but almost bleeding to death.—Lord Rosebery. * * * We have set out to win on land as well as by sea, and we will win.—Lord Derby. * * # Do not grouse, but go; do not whimper, but do your bit. —Bishop of Lichfield. * * ♦ The French are heroes, and the Freneh women are worthy of Joan of Arc—Mr. Roosevelt.

There is only one task for all of us and that is to win the war. MiArthur Henderson, M.P.

Every man is the best judge of his own honour, and so is every nation. — Sir A. Conan Doyle.

Let the women who are called "surplus" women here go to the colonics and marry.—Lady Helmsley.

One of the great surprises of the year has been the non-appearance of the much-advertised war-babies. —Mr. Joseph Nuttall.

You cannot moralise with a mad tiger or an alligator. The only thing a sensible man can do is to give it a blow on the head.—Calonel John Ward, M.P.

We must cut out every power tint Germany exercised before the war ant so prevent her from troubling us again —Mr. Hughes (Australian Premier).

I look forward to a permanent alliance of England and Russia as the surest guarantee of the world's peace. —Sir Goorg" Buchanan (Ambassador to Petrograd).

It is one thing to wish and to work for the reign of universal peace, but it is another thing to act as though the roign of universal peaee was already here. —Mr. Herbert Samuel.

It i-i to the interest of America as well as Europe that the merciless ruffianism of the German military machine should be shattered to such fragments that it can never be built up again.— Lord Abereonwav.

If I couid see in the House of Commons twenty-two men with larger experience, ability, and patriotism. I would \x> very willing to change til' present Government on the spot. But 1 am banged if I can see t'h >m. —S r George Reid.